A. Theme: Innovations at Grassroots, Administrative Innovations, Educational Innovations, Business Incubation

1.    Efficient Conservation Of Crop Genetic Diversity Download (doc) (pdf)

2.    Mobilizing grassroots’ technological innovations and traditional knowledge, values and institutions:  articulating social and ethical capital (Gupta Futures)  Click here to see the full document

3.    Technological innovations for revitalising small scale and tiny sector:  Need for a bold initiative - A note submitted to Finance Minister for budget 2003-04  Click here to see the full document

4.     Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India innovative, note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget consultation meeting, January 9, 2002 – N 137 Click here to see the full document

5.    (With Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights, responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated knowledge systems, in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta),  Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002, p. 161-181.  Click here to see the full document  --  N 125

6.     Framework for rewarding indigenous knowledge in developing countries: Value chain for grassroots innovations, Paper presented at WTO Expert Committee, 3 September 2001  -- N 132  Click here to see the full document

7.     Rethinking priorities for Science and Technology policy for augmenting grassroots innovations:  A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minister, 2001  -- N 136   Click here to see the full document     

8.    Financing tiny and small sector technological innovations:  A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minster, 2000  -- Click here to see the full document --  N 135

9.    Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity:  The Role of Intellectual Property Protection, Paper presented at a seminar at Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, May 2000 Click here to see the full document  - N 116

10.     Transforming Developmental Options for Knowledge-rich, Economically-poor people: From Grassroots Innovations to Global Space, paper presented at the UNESCO-ACEID Conference in Bangkok during December 12-15, 2000   Click here to see the full document

11.     (With Brij Kothari and Kirit Patel) Networking Knowledge Rich Economically Poor Peoples, presented at the IMMA/World Bank Workshop on Applications of ICT in Rural Development, March 18-19, 1999  (Eds. Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware) Chapter 8, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2000, p.115 – 131 – N 113 Click here to see the full document

12.   Fishing in the ‘Troubled’ Waters: Recognizing, Respecting, and Rewarding Local Ecological Knowledge, Innovations and Practices Concerning Aquatic Biological Diversity, 1999; IIMA Working Paper No.99-12-01, December 1999, published in ‘Towards Polices for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Aquatic Genetic Resources, ICLARM Conference Proceedings, R.S.V.Pullin, D.M.Bartley and J.Kooiman (eds.), p.145-159. --  N112  Click here to see the full document

13.   Conserving Biodiversity and Rewarding Associated Knowledge and Innovation Systems: Honey Bee Perspective, invited paper for the First Commonwealth Science Forum – Access, Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property Rights and Benefit Sharing and the Commonwealth, Goa, 23-25 September 1999  -- N100 Click here to see the full document  

14.   Securing Traditional Knowledge and contemporary innovations: can global trade links help grassroots innovations?   Honey Bee perspective, invited paper for World Trade Forum, Bern, Switzerland, August 27-29, 1999  -- N 104 Click here to see the full document  

15.   Business Incubation Development in India, paper presented at the International Conference on Business Incubation in Hong Kong, November 18-20, 1998 – N 138 Click here to see the full document   

15.   India Innovates: Unfolding Dynamism of Youth for Innovation Based Enterprise Management  (UDYIEM), Keynote lecture delivered at National Level Chemical Engineering Students Meet, Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad on 5 October 1998.   Click here to see the full document     

16.   The Honey Bee Network: Linking Knowledge-rich Grassroots Innovations, Development, New Delhi, Sage Publications, pp.36-40., 1998  -- Click here to see the full document

17.   (With P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand, Shailesh R.Shukla) Ecological Knowledge of Rural Children: Educational Innovation and Natural Resource Conservation, presented at International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots, Jan 11-14, 1997, IIMA.  Click here to see the full document  

18.   Farmers’ Innovations for Sustainable Resource Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity, published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Food Security & Innovations: Successes and Lessons Learned at University of Hohenheim (Eds.Franz Heidhues/Andrea Fadani), Frankfurt, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp.97-112, 1997.  Click here to see the pre published version of the document  

19.   Roots of Creativity and Innovation in Indian Society:  A Honey Bee Perspective; Lovraj Kumar Memori­al Lecture delivered in Delhi on 30 August, 1996, organised by Society for Promotion of Wastelands development, Delhi, published in Wastelands News, Aug-Sep 1996, Vol..XII, No.1, pp.37-68. Click here to see the full document.  

20.   (With P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand, Kirit K Patel, S.Murali Krishna) Contracts for ‘Compensating’ Creativ­ity: Framework for Using Market and Non-Market Instruments for Rewarding Grassroots Creativity and Innovation, published as the proceedings of the conference, Forum Belem I, `A Third Millennium for Humanity? The Search for Paths of Sustainable Development (Eds., Dietrich E.Leihner and Thomas A.Mitschein) under the title, “Contracts for `Compensating’ Creativity: Framework for Rewarding Grassroot Creativity and Innovation”, Frankfurt, Berlin; Peter Lang, pp. 201-217.,1995 Click here to see the pre published version of the document

21.   People’s Knowledge for Survival: Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Natural Resource Manage­ment, presented at the IFAD’s International Conference on Hunger & Poverty in Brussels during November 16-23, 1995. Click here to see the full document  

22.   Initiative, Innovation and Institutions, The Study of Emerging Trends In Voluntarism In Rural Develop­ment In India. W.P. No.847, IIM, Ahmedabad. 1990, P 12, in Volun­tarism in Rural Development in India: Initiative, Innovation, and Institutions in The Nonprofit Sector in the Global Community: Voices from Many Nations, A publication of Independent Sector, Washington, pp 422-437, Chapter 24, 1992.  Click here to see the full document  

23.   (With Kirit K Patel) Survey of Farmers’ Innovations for Sustainable Development:  Do Methods Matter?, Proceed­ings of International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development, IIRR, Silang, Cavite, Philippines during September 20-26, pp.111-156, 1992. Click here to see the pre published version of the document  

24.   Farmers’ Innovations and Responsive Technologists: Building Sustainable Links,  Published in Sustainable Mount Agriculture, entitled, “Farmers’ Innovations and Agricul­tural Technologies” (Eds.N.S.Jodha, M.Banskota and Tej Partap), Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi. pp. 394-412., 1992. -- Click here to see the full document  

25.   (With Riya Sinha, Dileep Koradia, T N Prakash, and P Vivekanandan and other members of Honey Bee Network)  Building upon Grassroots’ Innovations:  Articulating Social and Ethical Capital,  Paper invited for presentation at the World Social Forum Workshop in Brazil during January 25-30, 2001.  IIMA WP No.2001-02-06 – N 140 Click here to see the full document  

26.   (With Honey Bee Network team)  Creativity, conservation, and compensation: Honey Bee Network approach to augment, sustainably utilize biodiversity, and share the benefits, paper presented at the Conference on Incentive Measures for Sustainable Use and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity: Experiences and Lessons from Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia, 11-14 September 2001. Click here to see the full document       

B.   Theme:  Biodiversity, Biotechnology, Farmers’ Rights.

26.   Gene Patents and the Genetic Resource Recognition Fund:  Sharing benefits from use of plant genetic resources by agro-biotechnological inventions and traditional agricultural practices, W.P.No.2002-08—01, August 2002, A case study based on the data collected from Mali.  Click here to see the full document   

27.   (With Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B.Ghosh, Riya Sinha and Neeru Jain) Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India, published in “Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity:  Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies” (Ed. Detlef Virchow), Berlin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 137 – 174, 2003. Click here to see the full document  

28.   Creativity, Conservation and Compensation:  The Honey Bee Network Approach to Providing Incentives for Sustainably Utilising Biodiversity, published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Incentive Measures for sustainable use and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity:  Experiences and Lessons from Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia, 11-14 September 2001, p. 141-152. Click here to see the full document  

29.   Precaution and the survival threshold:  Oscillations between the Plimsoll Lines, Keynote paper presented at the conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy:  Science and the Precautionary Principle Harvard University, Boston, 22-23 September 2000 Click here to see the full document

30.   Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability: An Executive Summary of the Proceedings of the International Training Workshop, "Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: A Natural Resource Perspective", March 11-13, 1999, New Delhi and Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co .Pvt.Ltd., 2001, p.21, March 11-13, 1999 - Click here to see the full document  

31.   Science, Sustainability and Social Purpose: Barriers to Effective Articulation, Dialogue and Utilization of Formal and Informal Science in Public Policy, published in International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol.2, No.3, 1999; UK, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., pp.368-371; IIMA Working Paper No: 99-12-02, December 1999 -- Click here to see the full document  

32.   Rewarding Creativity for Conserving Diversity in Third World:  Can IPR Regime Serve the Needs of Contemporary and Traditional Knowledge Experts and Communities in Third World?  Paper presented in AIPPI Forum (Sep 10-14, 1996) on Ethical and Ecological Aspects of IPRs, Interlaken, Switzerland on 13 Sep, 1996, IIMA WP No.1339, November 1996; published in Strategic Issues of Industrial Property Management in a Globalising Economy – APPI Forum Series (Eds. Thomas Cottier, Peter Widmer and Katharina Schindler), Oxford, Portland and Oregon; Hart Publishing, 1999, pp.119-129. -- Click here to see the full document  

33.   Compensating Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity:  How Much, Who Will, How and When, 1995, and published as Rewarding Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity: The Case of the Honey Bee in Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies (Eds.Lakshman D.Guruswamy and Jeffrey A McNeely) Durham and London: Duke University Press,pp.180-189, 1998, IIMA WP No.99-10-04, October 1999 Click here to see the pre published version of the document  

34.   Blending Universal with Local Ethic:  Accountability Toward Nature, Perfect Stranger, and Society,  IIMA WP No.99-10-05, October 1999, in Protecting Biological Diversity: Roles and Responsibilities, (Eds., Catherine Potvin, Margaret Kraenzel and Gilles Seutin), Montrel  & Kingston, London, Ithaca, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Click here to see the full document  

35.   Community Information Services: A Proposal for creating Knowledge Networks for Creativity, Paper presented at the Conference on Information Today and Tomorrow at Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai on 2nd September, 1998   Click here to see the full document  

36.   Enigma of Intellectual Property Rights: How long shall we miss the opportunities?, Invited paper pre­sented at the 49th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Trivandrum Dec 20, 1997   Click here to see the full document.  

37.   (With Kirit K Patel, et al) Participatory Research: Will the Koel Hatch the Crow’s Eggs, paper presented in the International Seminar on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Develop­ment, organised by CIAT, Colombia, 1996; Published in New Frontiers in Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, as proceedings of the Conference, 1997, pp.209-243 Click here to see the pre published version of the document  

38.   Technologies, Institutions and Incentives for Conservation of Biodiversity in Non-OECD Countries: Assessing Needs for Technical Co-operation, presented at OECD Conference on Biodiversity Conserva­tion Incentive Measures in Cairns, Australia, March 25-29, 1996, published in the proceedings, “Invest­ing In Biological Diversity: The Cairns Conference”, Paris: OECD,1997, pp.305-329. ---  N66  Click here to see the full document  

39.   Social and Ethical Dimensions of Ecological Economics, Keynote Paper invited presentation at the Conference, Down to Earth  of International Society of Ecological Economics, Costa Rica, October, 1994, in Ed. Robert Constanza, Oleman Segura and Juan Martinez-Alier, Getting Down To Earth: Prac­tical Applications of Ecologial Economics, Washington DC:Island Press, 1996, 91-116  -- N48  Click here to see the full document  

40.   Getting Creative Individuals and Communities Their Due: Framework for Operationalizing Article 8J and 10C.  Draft paper invited by CBD Secretariat. 1996 -- Click here to see the full document  

41.   Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation and Utilisation of Animal Germplasm, Paper prepared for Expert Group consulta­tion for Global Animal Diversity Conservation and FAO’s Strategy for conservation of global animal germplasm, 1996 Click here to see the full document  

42.   Dilemma in Conservation of Biodiversity:  Ethical, Equity and Moral Issues — a review, Prepared for a workshop of Pew Conservation Scholars on Developing Ethical Guidelines for Accessing Biodiversity,  Arizona, October, 1994, published under the title, “Ethical Dilemmas in Conservation of Biodiversity:  Towards Developing Globally Acceptable Ethical Guidelines” in Eubios Journal of Asian and Interna­tional Bioethics 5 (Japan), March 1995, pp.40-46 -- N35  Click here to see pre published version of the document  

43.   Suggested Ethical Guidelines for Accessing and Exploring Biodiversity - A Pew Conservation Scholars Initiative, October 21, 1994 (A collective effort of Pew Conservation Scholars based on three background notes including G 16 and G 17), published in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 5 (Japan), March 1995, pp.38-40.  -- N28 Click here to see the full document  

44.   Knowledge Centre: Building Upon What People Know, presented at the IFAD’s International Conference on Hunger & Poverty in Brussels during November 16-23, 1995.  -- N43  Click here to see the full document.

45.   (With Aseem Prakash) On Internalization of Externalities, IIMA WP No.1126, August 1993. -- N12 Click here to see the full document

46.   (With Srinivas Chokkakula) Sustaining Success and Learning From Failures: Farmers’ Institution Strengthening fro Watershed Management, published in The Status of Formal Watershed Management in Asia (Ed. Prem N Sharma and Mohan P.Wagley), pp.14-18, 1999. Click here to see the full document

47.   Role of Intellectual property Rights in the Benefit Sharing Arrangements:  The Case of Bio-resources Development and Conservation Programme in Nigeria, W.P.No.2002-08-03, August 2002  - A case study based on the data collected from Nigeria – Click here to see the full document

48.   Value addition to local Kani tribal knowledge:  patenting, licensing and benefit sharing,  W.P.No.2002-08—02, August 2002, A case study based on the data collected from Kani tribe, Kerala, India.  Click here to see the full document

49.   Strategic Opportunities in Managing IPRs: Biodiversity, Drug Industry and Emerging Options, IIMA Working Paper No.98-12-11, December, 1998  -- N108  Click here to see the full document

50.   Rewarding Conservation of Biological and Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity, IIMA W.P.No.2003-01-06, January 2003,  .  – This is a study on the role of intellectual property rights in the sharing of benefits arising from the use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge, based on the data collected from Mali, Nigeria and India,” brought out in CD format by WIPO-UNEP, 2002. (Ref: Document/UNEP/CBD/COP/5/INF/26 dated 10 May, 2000) Click here to see the full document

E.     Theme:  Household Economy in Stress Prone Ecological Regions Like Drought Prone   

         Regions: Socio-Ecological Perspective

68.   Household Survival Strategies in Risky Ecological Context: Matching Individual, Institutional and State Response,  presented at 7^th World Congress of Rural Sociology, Bolgua, 1988 Click here to see the full document   

69.   Drought and Deprivation: Socio-Ecology  Of Stress, Survival and Surrender, Seminar on Control of Drought Desertification and Famine, IIC, New Delhi; IIM-Bangalore; INTACH, May 1986 and revised draft at World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, 1986. Click here to see the full document   

70.   Agenda for Research in Dry Regions: Socio- ecological perspective, IIM Working Paper No.537, November, 1984. Click here to see the full document  

71.   Analytical Review of Selected CMA studies in Dry Region: 1973-83, IIM Working Paper 536, 1984.  Click here to see the full document    

F.    Theme : Rural Credit

72.   Credit Arrangements for Drought Prone Regions: Policy Prescriptions and Planners’ Reaction, Septem­ber 1983, IIM Working Paper No.478, background paper for National Seminar organised by NABARD on author’s research findings.   Click here to see the full document

G.     Theme: Rural Development, Organizational theory and learning in Organizations.

73.   (With Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya) Contours of collaboration: Coping with disasters through effective inter-organisational networks, talk delivered at the seminar on “Disaster Management and the Armed Forces:  A National Effort” on 11^th September 2002 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi and published later by the Army Headquarters and Institution of Engineers, New Delhi in their souvenir, p. 61 – 69, 2002 Click here to see the full document  

74.   Lessons For Learners. IIM, Ahmedabad. W.P. No-850,1990, P 15.  Click here to see the full document  

75.   Politics of Articulation, Mediating Structures and Voluntarism: From ‘Chauraha’ To ‘Chaupal’. IIM,Ahmedabad. W.P. no-894. 1990, p 73; prepared for an International research programme on Political Discourse in India, York University, UK. – Click here to see the full document  

76.   Ecology, Market Forces and Design of Resource Delivery Organizations, paper prepared for International Conference on Organizational and Behavioural Perspective for Social Development, Dec. 29, 1986-January 2, 1987 also in Int. Studies in Management and Organization, 18(4) 64-82, 1989. -- Click here to see the full document  

77.   Why Poor don’t Cooperate: Lessons from Traditional Organizations with Implication for Modern Organ­izations, in Clare G. Wanger (ed.), Research  Relationship  Politics  and Practice of Social Research, George Allen and Unwin, London,1987, pp.111-127.--     Click here to see the full document  

78.   Managing Access, Assurance and Ability: What would Rural Development Managers Learn and Un­learn?  Working Paper   No. 710, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, October, 1987, Presented at International Conference on Designing Curriculum for Rural Development Training, Kenne­dy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, 1987. Click here to see the full document  

79.   Rediscovering the lost goals: a participatory institution building exercise involving a voluntary agency in a dry region, IIM-Mimeo, 1985. -- Click here to see the full document

80.   Issues for Research on Rural Development in South Asia: IIM Working Paper No.543, 1984. -- Click here to see the full document

81.   Designing Developmental Organization: Search for an Indian Theory, W.P. 444, 1982, p.28, accepted in the XIX Congress International Des Sciences Administrative, Berlin, September 1983. Click here to see the full document

H.   Theme : Micro-level Planning.

82.   Creating demand systems :Journal 2,A field report of an action research project on creation of demand groups of poor by bureaucracy in three tribal districts with similar people and dissimilar administration ,a joint CMA-PSG project,1982-1985,IIM working paper,1986. Click here to see the full document  

83.   (With Prof. Kuldeep Mathur)  Action Research for Micro, Level Planning: A Self Appraisal International Review of Administrative Sciences Vol. L(1) 60-68, 1984. Click here to see the full document   

I.    Theme : Technology/ Agricultural Research Management

84.   (With Shailesh Shukla, Darshit Shah, Pawan Mehra and Murali Krishna) Consumer Response to Green Market Opportunities, presented at National Workshop on Marketing of Organic Food Products, ISAM, Ahmedabad, August 2, 1997. Click here to see the full document      Click here to see another version of the paper

85.   (With Kirit K Patel, A.R.Pastakia and P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand) Building Upon Local Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Vulnerable Environments, published in Empowerment for Sustainable Development: Towards Operational Strategies (Ed.Vangile Titi and Naresh Singh), Nova Scotia, Canada; Fernwood Publishing Limited; New Jersey, Zed Books Limited,pp.112-137, 1995. Click here to see the full document

86.   Can You add without Subtraction: Reorienting Agricultural Research for Sustainable Outcomes, Invited contribution in the First Agricultural Science Congress, National Academy Of Agricultural Sciences, Nov 12-14, 1992, IARI, New Delhi; published under the title, Can We Add Without Subtraction:  Some Awkward Questions for Revitalizing Agricultural Research Strategies, in Proceedings of First Agricul­tural Science Congress, Ed.Prem Narain, New Delhi, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1993, pp.122-129. Click here to see the shorter version of the paper  

87.   Sustainable Development of Indian Agriculture: Green Revolution Revisited. IIM, Ahmedabad. 1990, P 10. IIM working Paper, Excerpts published in Food matters, 1991. Click here to see the full document  

88.   The Right To Resource: Peasant Knowledge, Protocol of Its ‘Extraction’ and Ethics of Collaboration In Extractions. W.P.No.851, January 1990, P 12. Also published in brief as Peasant Knowledge - Who has Rights To Use It ? ILEIA, News Letter, March 1990. pp 24-25. Click here to see the full document  

89.   Linkages for Lateral Learning among farmers, scientists and extension workers: Story of Match makers and lessons for Link breakers.  ISNAR.  Paper prepared for the International Workshop, Making the Link between Agricultural Research and Technology Users , The Hague, Netherlands, November 20-25, 1989. --  Click here to see the full document    

90.   (Co-author) Strengthening On-Farm Rice Research In High Risk  Environment Of Eastern India: An Institution Building  Perspective.” At Farming System Research/Extension Symposium, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA, Oct 9- 12, 1988. Click here to see the full document   

91.   Technology for Dry Farming: How the Scientists, Students and Farmers View the Challenge?, October 1987, IIM Working Paper No. 708. -- Click here to see the full document  

92.   Organising and Managing the Poor Client Responsive Research System: Can Tail Wag the Dog? Paper presented in a Workshop on Farmers and Agricultural Research: Complementary Methods, Institute of Development Studies at the  University of Sussex, U.K., 26-31 July, 1987. Presented at International Advisory Committee of ISNAR, meeting on-farm Client oriented Research at the Hague, Oct., 1987., -- Click here to see the full document  

93.   Grassroots Innovations for Survival, “LEISA India, Vol.2, No.2, (July 2000), 20-21  Click here to see the full document

94.  (With S.Deshmukh, M.G.Gogate) Sacred Groves and Biological Diversity: Providing New Dimensions to Conservation Issues, published in “Conserving the Sacred For Biodiversity Management” (Eds.,P.S.Ramakrishnan, K.G.Saxena and U.M.Chandrashekara), New Delhi and Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., pp.415-421, 1998) Click here to see the full document

95.   Tending this spirit: Sustaining the Sacred - Policy and Institutional Aspects of Sacred Groves, presented at the Conference on Role of Sacred Groves in the field of Sustainable Development at Peechi, Kerala, December 9-11 December, 1997 and published as “Policy and Institutional Aspects of Sacred Groves: Tending the Spirit, Sustaining the Sacred,” in Conserving the Sacred For Biodiversity Management (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, K.G.Saxena and U.M.Chandrashekara), New Delhi and Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., pp.397-414, 1998  Click here to see the full document

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